Elsa Werth
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Elsa Werth (born 1985) is a French artist who lives and works in Paris.[https://www.paris-art.com/createurs/elsa-werth/ Elsa Werth, Paris Art]
Biography
Elsa Werth was born in 1985 in Paris, France. She graduated from both the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs where she studied film animation and École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.[http://art-action.org/site/fr/cat/sample.php?oeuvre=u88106982&lang=fr Elsa Werth, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin] She was awarded the price Humankind Leo Burnet in 2013{{Cite web|last=Semeteys|first=Romain|title=Exposition du prix des amis de l'ENSBA 2013 – Lechassis|url=http://lechassis.fr/exposition-du-prix-des-amis-de-lensba-2013/|access-date=2020-08-19|language=fr-FR}} and the 23rd Pernod Ricard Foundation Prize for contemporary art in 2022.{{Cite web |last=Krief |first=Pascale |date=2022-11-03 |title=Gigantism in Paris and Other Considerations: A Glance at Institutional Exhibitions in Paris during Paris + par Art Basel {{!}} |url=https://flash---art.com/2022/11/paris-par-art-basel/ |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=Flash Art |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Jacquet |first=Matthieu |title=Qui est Elsa Werth, artiste lauréate du 23e prix Fondation Pernod Ricard ? |url=https://www.numero.com/fr/art/elsa-werth-artiste-prix-fondation-pernod-ricard-paris |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=Numéro Magazine |language=fr}}
Work
Elsa Werth's practice includes installation, sculpture, video, artist's books, and sound pieces. She has exhibited since 2013 in France, U.S., China, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland.{{Cite web|last=ArtFacts|title=Elsa Werth {{!}} Artist|url=https://artfacts.net/artist/elsa-werth/522089|access-date=2020-08-02|website=ArtFacts|language=en}}
Her work focuses on the use of common objects and gestures, systems, language, traditional and contemporary rituals. The interpretation of information and commodity production, as well as their relations to the social circles, are the key approaches to her projects.{{Cite web|title=Exposition ELSA WERTH A LAND|url=https://www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com/en/event/elsa-werth-map/|access-date=2020-08-02|website=Fondation d'entreprise Ricard|language=en-US}}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} She uses alternative modes of exchange and expression to contradict a world she considers subject to the cult of material values. Her works are always made with simple means to escape spectacular effects.{{Cite web|last=Miquelot|first=Géraldine|date=|title=Elsa Werth – Temps partiel – Micro Onde – Centre d'art contemporain de l'Onde – Exhibition|url=https://slash-paris.com/en/evenements/elsa-werth-temps-partiel|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-04|website=Slash Paris|language=en}}
In 2014 she curated with Muriel Leray inside a storage unit in Paris Plus une pièce. Since 2016 she curates Potential Visual Evocations,{{Cite web|last=Urfalino|first=Mathilde|date=2016-09-11|title=This week's 5 must see exhibitions|url=https://www.lesinrocks.com/2016/09/11/arts/actualite/5-expos-a-ne-rater-cette-semaine/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-22|website=Les Inrockuptibles|language=fr-FR}} an ongoing outdoor traveling exhibition that took place in Paris, Clichy, Shanghai, Montreal, La Louvière and Seoul. Participating artists include Claude Closky, Seulgi Lee and Marylène Negro among others.[https://fonderiedarling.org/en/Potentiels-%C3%A9voqu%C3%A9s-visuels.html Potential Visual Evocations] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200813025011/https://fonderiedarling.org/en/Potentiels-%C3%A9voqu%C3%A9s-visuels.html |date=2020-08-13 }}, Darling Foundry
Collections
Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou,{{Cite web |last=Pompidou |first=Musée national d’art moderne-Centre |date=2023-09-06 |title=Elsa Werth |url=https://collection.centrepompidou.fr/artworks/authors/WERTH%20Elsa%E2%86%B9WERTH%20Elsa?page=1 |access-date=2023-10-03 |website=Navigart.fr |language=fr}} Kadist Art Foundation,{{Cite web |title=Elsa Werth Strip Color |url=https://kadist.org/work/strip-color/ |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=kadist.org}} Les Abattoirs,{{Cite web |last=Toulouse |first=les Abattoirs |date=2023-10-26 |title=Elsa Werth |url=https://www.navigart.fr/lesabattoirs/artworks/authors/WERTH%20Elsa%E2%86%B9WERTH%20Elsa?filters&page=1&layout=grid&sort=by_author |access-date=2023-12-18 |website=Navigart.fr |language=fr}} {{Interlanguage link|Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Normandie-Caen|lt=|fr|Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Normandie-Caen|WD=}},{{Cite web|last=Frac Normandie Caen|date=2020-09-11|title=HAHAHA – ascension sociale|url=https://www.navigart.fr/fracnc/artwork/330000000055201|access-date=2021-05-14|website=Navigart.fr|language=fr}} the Frac des Pays de la Loires,{{Cite web|last=Frac des Pays de la Loire|date=2021-09-08|title=Frac des Pays de la Loire|url=https://www.navigart.fr/fracpl/artworks?filters=year_acq:2021__2021,,authors:WERTH%20Elsa%E2%86%B9WERTH%20Elsa&page=1&layout=grid&sort=by_author|access-date=2021-12-12|website=Navigart.fr|language=fr}} the {{Interlanguage link|Frac Franche-Comté|fr|Fonds régional d'art contemporain de Franche-Comté}},{{Cite web |last=Franche-Comté |first=Frac |date=2021-12-24 |title=Elsa Werth: Three Shifts |url=https://www.navigart.fr/fracfc/artwork/370000000042692 |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=Navigart.fr |language=fr}} the Centre national des arts plastiques,{{Cite web|title=Acquisitions et commandes Arts plastiques – 2018 {{!}} Cnap|url=https://www.cnap.fr/node/115473|access-date=2021-05-14|website=www.cnap.fr}} the Rennes 2 University Cabinet du livre d'artistes.{{Cite web|title=Werth Elsa {{!}}|url=https://satellites.univ-rennes2.fr/cabinet-livre-artiste/wp/category/auteurs/werth-elsa|access-date=2021-05-14|language=fr-FR}}
Selected exhibitions
=Solo exhibitions=
- 24/7, B09K, Changsha, China, 2023
- Titre un à usages multiples, Lendroit, Rennes, 2022{{Cite web |title=Lendroit éditions - TITRE UN A USAGES MULTIPLES |url=https://www.lendroit.org/fiches-news/3125-TITRE-UN-A-USAGES-MULTIPLES |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=www.lendroit.org}}
- Give and Take, Bloom, Düsseldorf, 2022{{Cite web |title=Elsa Werth "Give and Take" |url=https://www.kulturportal-duesseldorf.de/veranstaltungskalender/elsa-werth-give-and-take-a7b6440089 |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=www.kulturportal-duesseldorf.de |language=de}}{{Cite web |title=Elsa Werth: Give and Take |url=https://www.bloomduesseldorf.de/elsa-werth-2022 |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=Info |language=de}}
- Parties de cartes, CDLA, Saint-Yriex-la-Perche, 2021{{Cite web |last=cdla |date=2021-03-31 |title=Elsa Werth |url=https://cdla.info/2021/03/31/elsa-werth-4/ |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=le cdla |language=fr-FR}}
- Blow: Elsa Werth, Bloom, Düsseldorf, 2020{{Cite web|title=Blow / Elsa Werth|url=https://www.bloomduesseldorf.de/blow-elsa-werth|access-date=2020-08-02|website=Info|language=de}}
- A Land, mfc – Michèle Didier, Paris, 2020{{Cite web|title=Exposition ELSA WERTH A LAND|url=https://www.fondation-entreprise-ricard.com/en/event/elsa-werth-map/|access-date=2020-08-02|website=Fondation d'entreprise Ricard|language=en-US}}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
- Anywayland, Interface, Dijon, 2019{{Cite web|last=Petillat|first=Siloé|date=|title=Elsa Werth – Anywayland|url=http://www.dijonart.com/Elsa-Werth-Anywayland|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-09|website=www.dijonart.com}}{{Cite web|last=Rouillé|first=Jean-Yves|date=|title=Exposition : aux frontières de pays imaginaires|url=https://www.bienpublic.com/edition-dijon-ville/2019/10/20/aux-frontieres-de-pays-imaginaires|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-09|website=www.bienpublic.com|language=FR-fr}}
- Temps Partiel [Part-Time], Onde Art Center, Vélizy-Villacoublay, 2019{{Cite web |url=https://www.dca-art.com/expositions/elsa-werth-temps-partiel |title=Temps Partiel, d.c.a / Association française de développement des centres d’art contemporain |access-date=2020-08-02 |archive-date=2020-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924023533/http://www.dca-art.com/expositions/elsa-werth-temps-partiel |url-status=dead }}
- L'action cesse, Duplex Walden, Geneva, 2018{{Cite web|title=Aduplex|url=https://aduplex.ch/laction-cesse-elsa-werth/|access-date=2020-08-02|language=fr-FR|archive-date=2021-02-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210207132812/https://aduplex.ch/laction-cesse-elsa-werth/|url-status=dead}}
- Temporary Perspectives, Martine Aboucaya Gallery, Paris{{Cite web|last=Morais|first=Pedro|date=24 March 2017|title=Jeune artiste : Elsa Werth|url=https://www.lequotidiendelart.com/articles/10554-jeune-artiste-elsa-werth.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-02|website=Le Quotidien de l'Art|language=fr}}
- Title One for Multiple Use, Bazaar Compatible Program, Shanghai, 2016{{Cite web|last=ArtFacts|title=Title One for Multiple Use {{!}} Exhibition|url=https://artfacts.net/exhibition/title-one-for-multiple-use/877852|access-date=2021-02-25|website=ArtFacts|language=en}}
- Title One for Multiple Use, Martine Aboucaya Gallery, Paris, 2016{{Cite web|last=Blanchard|first=Benoît|date=|title=Elsa Werth – Titre un à usage multiple – Galerie Martine Aboucaya {{!}} œuvres|url=http://oeuvres-revue.net/2016/03/11/elsa-werth-titre-un-a-usage-multiple-galerie-martine-aboucaya/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-04|website=|language=fr}}
- Elsa Werth, Primo Piano, Paris, 2014{{Cite web|last=Fontaine|first=Sylvie|date=2015-01-22|title=Espace Primo Piano|url=https://artais-artcontemporain.org/espace-primo-piano/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-13|website=Artais Artcontemporain|language=fr-FR}}
= Group exhibitions =
- Contemporary art collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2023{{Cite web |last=Heidsieck |first=Muse |date=2022-10-25 |title=Art contemporain : l'artiste Elsa Werth est la lauréate 2022 du Prix Fondation Pernod Ricard |url=https://www.connaissancedesarts.com/arts-expositions/art-contemporain/art-contemporain-lartiste-elsa-werth-est-la-laureate-2022-du-prix-fondation-pernod-ricard-11177622/ |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=Connaissance des Arts |language=fr-FR}}
- Janelas, BPS22, Charleroi, 2023
- The Seashore of Endless Worlds, Le Commun, Geneva, 2023{{Cite web |last=Shlonsky |first=Layla |date=2023-11-07 |title=The Seashore of Endless Worlds |url=https://www.rts.ch/audio-podcast/2023/audio/the-seashore-of-endless-worlds-27181915.html |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=rts.ch |language=fr}}
- P,Oe?ie!, TOPO?, Brussels, 2023
- De toi à moi, Fondation FIMINCO, Romainville, France, 2022{{Cite web |last=Donnadieu |first=Marc |date=2022-11-09 |title="De toi à moi" |url=https://www.artpress.com/2022/11/09/de-toi-a-moi/ |access-date=2023-11-21 |website=artpress |language=fr-FR}}
- Horizones, {{Interlanguage link|Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard|lt=Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard|fr}}, curated by Clément Dirié, 2022{{Cite web |last=Hatt |first=Étienne |date=2022-10-19 |title=Preview : "Horizones", 23e prix de la fondation Pernod Ricard |url=https://www.artpress.com/2022/10/19/preview-horizones-23e-prix-de-la-fondation-pernod-ricard/ |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=artpress |language=en, fr}}
- 3 Collectionneurs #8, Été 78, Brussels, 2021{{Cite web |last=projects |first=ART data |date=2021-04-24 |title=Été 78, where art meets life in Brussels |url=https://www.artdataprojects.org/ete-78-where-art-meets-life/ |access-date=2022-11-06 |website=ART data projects |language=es}}
- Helix, Bloom, Düsseldorf, curated by Ji Sue Byun, 2021
- Nous irons tous au paradis, Frac Normandie – Caen, curated by Anne Cartel, 2021{{Cite web|last=Fresnais|first=Raphaël|title=Nous irons tous au paradis|url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/normandie/caen-14000/en-images-nous-irons-tous-au-paradis-l-expo-automne-hiver-du-frac-normandie-caen-7942a774-37ee-11ec-91f1-9d137aad4b8a|website=Ouest France|date=29 October 2021 }}
- Tout un film!, Drawing Lab, Paris, curated by Joana P.R. Neves, 2021{{Cite web|last=Laurent|first=Tom|title=Tout un film !|url=https://www.artabsolument.com/fr/default/exhibition/detail/3699//Tout-un-film-.html|access-date=2021-02-25|website=artabsolument.com}}
- X, Frac Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, curated by Claude Closky, 2020{{Cite web|last=Jaumouillé|first=Laure|title=X, FRAC des Pays de la Loire|url=https://www.zerodeux.fr/en/reviews-en/claude-closky-3/|access-date=2021-02-25|language=en-GB}}
- Some of Us, NordArt – Kunst in der Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, curated by Jérôme Cotinet-Alphaize and Marianne Derrien, 2019
- Pourquoi faire, pour quoi faire, Été 78, Brussels, curated by Renato Casciani, 2019
- Calculated Chance, The Société, Brussels, curated by Manuel Abendroth et Els Vermang, 2019[https://www.sisterart.be/l/societe-delectricite-une-nouvelle-et-heureuse-decouverte-et-heureuse/ Calculated Chance, review in Sister Art]{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Calculated Chance – Exhibition at Société d'Electricité Review|url=https://www.artrabbit.com/events/calculated-chance|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-09|website=ArtRabbit|language=en}}
- ShipShape, Biennale de Coimbra, curated by Tomas Cunha Ferreira, 2019
- Tilt Horizon 偏见, AMNUA, Nanjing, curated by Wang Yamin, 2019{{Cite web|last=ArtFacts|title=Tilt Horizon {{!}} Exhibition|url=https://artfacts.net/exhibition/tilt-horizon/889314|access-date=2021-02-25|website=ArtFacts|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Wang|first=Sue|title=AMNUA presents the group exhibition "Tilt Horizon" in Nanjing – Editor's Choice – Art News – CAFA ART INFO {{!}} Find Chinese Contemporary Art and News|url=http://www.cafa.com.cn/en/news/details/8325849|access-date=2021-02-25|website=www.cafa.com.cn}}
- 26 x Bauhaus, Institut Français, Berlin, 2019, curated by Marjolaine Lévy and Thibaut de Ruyter, 2019{{Cite web|last=Wengorz|first=Kristina|date=13 April 2019|title=26 x Bauhaus Review|url=https://wengorz.de/2019/04/13/26-x-bauhaus/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-09|website=|language=de-DE}}{{Cite web|last=de Ruyter|first=Thibaut|date=|title=26 x bauhaus|url=http://www.thibautderuyter.com/2019-26-x-bauhaus|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-09|website=www.thibautderuyter.com}}
- One Minute One Hour One Month... One Million Years, The Island Club Limassol, curated by Christodoulos Panayiotou, 2019{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2019-03-26|title="One Minute, One Hour, One Month... One Million Years" Review|url=http://moussemagazine.it/one-minute-one-hour-one-month-one-million-years-island-club-limassol-2019/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-09|website=Mousse Magazine|language=it-IT}}
- Le génie du lieu, Le Creux de l’Enfer, Thiers, curated by Sophie Auger-Grappin, 2018{{Cite web|last=Alkema|first=Hanna|date=|title=La belle revue – Le Génie du lieu at Creux de l'enfer|url=https://www.labellerevue.org/en/exhibition-reviews/2019/la-genie-du-lieu-at-creux-de-lenfer/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-19|website=www.labellerevue.org}}
- Potential Visual Evocations, Darling Foundry, Montreal, 2018{{Cite web|last=Bolduc|first=Éric|date=2018-06-08|title=GROUPE@ fonderie darling|url=https://ratsdeville.org/2018/06/08/groupe-fonderie-darling/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029200912/https://ratsdeville.org/2018/06/08/groupe-fonderie-darling/|archive-date=2020-10-29|access-date=2020-11-16|website=rats de ville|language=|url-status=dead}}
- Phantoms, Wonder/Liebert, Bagnolet, curated by Karin Schlageter, 2018
- ''Artist-fun space, Art Center André Malraux, Douarnenez, curated by Julien Nédélec, 2018
- Flatland / Abstractions Narratives, Mudam, Luxembourg, 2017[https://www.artshebdomedias.com/agenda/flatland-abstractions-narratives-2-exposition-collective-2/ Flatland / Abstractions Narratives, Arts Hebdo Medias]
- Sentimental Summer, Centre d’Art Bastille (CAB), Grenoble, 2017{{Cite web|last=Corubolo|first=Charline|date=|title=Sentimental Summer : séduisant chassé-croisé estival et artistique au Centre d'art Bastille|url=http://www.petit-bulletin.fr/grenoble/expositions-article-58525-Sentimental+Summer+++seduisant+chasse-croise+estival+et+artistique+au+Centre+d+art+Bastille.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-11-04|website=www.petit-bulletin.fr|language=fr}}
- La vie mode d’emploi, CAC Chanot, Clamart, curated by Madeleine Mathé and Karin Schlageter, 2017
- Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2017
- Rob is a Robe, Doc, Paris, 2016
- 60ème Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, 2015{{Cite web|last=Luquet-Gad|first=Ingrid|date=2015-05-19|title=Elsa Werth, l'artiste qui détourne nos objet du quotidien|url=https://www.lesinrocks.com/2015/05/19/arts/arts/salon-de-montrouge-35-focus-sur-elsa-werth/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-02|website=Les Inrockuptibles|language=fr-FR}}
- Bazar, Primo Piano, Paris, curated by Lucia Schreyer, 2015
- Cocktail Games, La Ludothèque éphémère, Paris, curated by Florencia Chernajovsky and Clément Dirié, 2015{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2016-09-16|title=Cocktail Games|url=http://www.thebigconversationspace.org/cocktail-gamesla-ludotheque-ephemere/|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-09|website=TBCS|language=en-US}}
- Châteaux de cartes, Florence Loewy...by artists, Paris, curated by Camille Azaïs, 2015
- Intertidal, Galerie Eva Meyer, Paris, curated by MBDTCurators, 2015
- Modifications, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U), Berlin, 2014{{Cite web|title=Modifications – ZK/U Berlin|url=https://www.zku-berlin.org/timeline/modifications/|access-date=2020-08-02|website=www.zku-berlin.org|date=6 July 2013 |language=en}}
- Toujours +, Florence Loewy...by artists, Paris, 2014
- 5/5, Fondation Rosenblum, Paris, curated by Clément Dirié, 2013
- Marler Media Art Award, {{Interlanguage link|Museum of Sculpture Glaskasten|lt=|de|Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten|WD=}}, Marl, curated by Georg Elben, 2013
Selected books
- Plus une pièce, Plus un multiple, 2014, {{ISBN|978-2-9550024-0-7}}
- Sparkless, 2015, {{ISBN|979-10-94645-00-0}}{{Cite web|last=Cabinet du livre d'artiste|date=|title=Sans éclat|url=https://www.sites.univ-rennes2.fr/cabinet-livre-artiste/genres/livre/sans-eclat|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-09|website=www.sites.univ-rennes2.fr|language=fr-FR}}
- Original soldé, 2018, {{ISBN|979-10-94645-01-7}}[https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/31601/ Original soldé, Artext]
- Formule de politesse, 2019, {{ISBN|9791094645024}}[https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/31602/ Formule de politesse, Artext]
- 2020, 2020, {{ISBN|979-10-94645-03-1}}
- Politeness, 2020, {{ISBN|979-10-94645-05-5}}
- Un jour dans Le Monde (4 octobre 2019), 2020, {{ISBN|978-2-917393-11-6}}[https://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/31441/ Un jour dans Le Monde, Artext]
- Negociation, 2021, ISBN 979-10-94645-08-6
- Meeting Point, 2022, ISBN 979-10-94645-08-6
- Abracadabra, 2022, ISBN 978-2-9602786-1-3
- Global Warming Coloring Book, 2023 {{ISBN|979-10-94645-11-6}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.potentielsevoquesvisuels.info Potential Visual Evocations website]
- [https://e-artexte.ca/view/contributors/Werth=3AElsa=3A=3A.html Elsa Werth, Artext]
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